Seminars

2001

Thursday, December 20, 2001

Mingfang Ting,  Department of Atmospheric Sciences,  University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign, Illinois
Atmospheric responses to a midlatitude heat source in an anomaly atmospheric model
POST 723, 3:00 p.m.

Monday, December 3, 2001

David Karoly, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
Describing global climate variability and change using simple indices
MSB 100, 3:30 p.m.

Wednesday, November 28, 2001

Christopher W. Landsea, Research Meteorologist, NOAA- Hurricane Research Division, Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory, Miami, Florida
1) How much 'skill' was there in forecasting the strong 1997-98 El Nino and 1998-2001 La Nina events?
POST 723, 11:30 a.m.

2)The Recent Increase in Atlantic Hurricane Activity: Causes and Implications
MSB 100, 3:30 p.m.

Wednesday, November 14, 2001

H. Annamalai, International Pacific Research Center, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Coupled Dynamics in the Indian Ocean:  Externally or Internally Forced?
MSB 100, 3:30 p.m.

Tuesday, October 23, 2001

Lorenz Magaard, Department of Oceanography and International Pacific Research Center, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawaii at Manoa
My Trip to Applied Climatology
POST 723, 3:00 p.m.

Tuesday, October 16, 2001

Jong-Ghap Jhun, Atmospheric Sciences Program, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University
Teleconnection Between the Climatic Elements in East Asia and the Tropics
POST 723, 3:00 p.m.

Tuesday, October 9, 2001

Jeff Tilley, Geophysical Institute and International Arctic Research Center
Regional Modeling Activities at the University of Alaska Geophysical Institute and International Arctic Research Center
MSB 100, 3:30 p.m.

Monday, October 8, 2001

Friedrich Schott,  Institute for Marine Research at the University of Kiel, Germany
Recent Changes in North Atlantic Water Mass Transformation and Possible Relations to the Tropics and Climate
POST 723, 2:00 p.m.

Tuesday, October 2, 2001

Gabriel A. Vecchi, Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Oceans University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Southwest Monsoon Breaks and Sub-seasonal SST Variability in the Bay of Bengal
POST 723, 3:00 p.m.

Tuesday, September 25, 2001

Friedrich Schott, Institute for Marine Science at the University of Kiel, Germany
Monsoon Response of the Arabian Sea and Role of the Annual Rossby Wave
POST 723, 3:00 p.m.

Tuesday, September 18, 2001

Le Ly, Department of Oceanography, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California
Air-Wave-Sea Coupling and its Application to Coastal Ocean Modeling with Numerical Grid Generation
POST 723, 3:00 p.m.
(Joint IPRC-Oceanography Seminar)

Wednesday, August 22, 2001

Niklas Schneider, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
Pacific Decadal Variability: Dynamics and Predictability
MSB 100, 2:00 p.m.
(Joint IPRC-Oceanography Seminar)

Thursday, August 9, 2001

William Lau, Climate & Radiation Branch, NASA/GSFC, Maryland
The Asian Monsoon - North Pacific Climate Regulator
MSB 100, 2:00 p.m.

Wednesday, August 8, 2001

Mezak A. Ratag,  Climate Modeling Division, Indonesian National Institute of Aeronautics and Space (LAPAN)
High resolution nested Climate Modeling using DARLAM
POST 723, 2:00 p.m.

Tuesday, August 7, 2001

Amita V. Mehta, NASA-UMBC Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology (JCET)
Interannual Variability of Upper Tropospheric Water Vapor as seen from NASA/NOAA Pathfinder Path A Project
POST 723, 2:00 p.m.

Wednesday, August 1, 2001

Erich Roeckner, Max-Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
Simulating the past and future climate with a coupled GCM
POST 723, 2:00 p.m.

Tuesday, July 10, 2001

Leland Jameson, Hydrodynamics and Turbulence Theory and Simulation Group, University of California, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Nested grids and higher-order schemes
POST 723, 2:00 p.m.

Friday, June 29, 2001

Vikram Mehta, Research Scientist, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland
Natural decadal-multidecadal variability in the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool and its implications for global climate variability
POST 723, 2:00 p.m.

Tuesday, June 12, 2001

Kwang-Yul Kim, Department of Meteorology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
What are cyclostationary EOFs?  Concepts and Applications
MSB 100,  2:00 p.m.

Friday, June 1, 2001

Masaru Inatsu, Graduate School of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
Zonal variations in the westerly jet and storm tracks in an idealized AGCM
POST 723, 1:30 p.m.

Tuesday, May 8, 2001

Tomowo Watanabe,Tohoku National Fisheries Research Institute, Shiogama, Japan
Interannual variations in the Western Subarctic Gyre
POST 723, 3:00 p.m.

Monday, April 23, 2001

Alan Robock, Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Soil moisture observations for remote sensing, model evaluation, and climatic analysis
MSB 100, 1:30 p.m.

Friday, April 20, 2001

Georgiy Stenchikov, Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Sensitivity of Arctic Oscillation to volcanic aerosols and Quasi-Biennial Oscillation
MSB 100, 2:00 p.m.

Thursday, April 19, 2001

Alan Robock, Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Volcanic eruptions and climate: Winter warming and summer cooling
POST 723, 2:00 p.m.

Wednesday, March 21, 2001

George Philander, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Why each El Niņo is unique and has very limited predictability
MSB 114, 1:30 p.m.

Friday, March 16, 2001

Dmitri Nechaev, Stennis Space Center, Mississippi, U.S.A.
A baroclinic model designed for 4-dimensional variational data assimilation
MSB 100, 2:00 p.m.

Thursday, March 15, 2001

Thomas Jung, Alfred Wegener Institute of  Polar Research, Bremerhaven, Germany
North Atlantic interdecadal variability: Oceanic response to the North Atlantic Oscillation
POST 723, 2:00 p.m.

Wednesday, March 14, 2001

Shang-Ping Xie, International Pacific Research Center and Department of Meteorology, University of Hawaii
Far-reaching effects of the Hawaiian Islands on the Pacific Ocean-atmosphere
MSB 100, 3:30 p.m.
(Joint IPRC-Meteorology Seminar)

Wednesday, February 28, 2001

Tim Li, International Pacific Research Center and Department of Meteorology, University of Hawaii,
A theory for the Indian Ocean Dipole Mode
MSB 100, 3:30 p.m.
(Joint IPRC-Meteorology Seminar)

Tuesday, February 27, 2001

Akimasa Sumi, Center for Climate System Research, University of Tokyo
Future direction of model development
MSB 100, 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Wednesday, February 21, 2001

Axel Timmermann, International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii
Decadal ENSO amplitude modulations
MSB 100, 3:30 - 4:30 p.m.
(Joint IPRC-Meteorology Seminar)

Tuesday, February 20, 2001

Akimasa Sumi, Center for Climate System Research, University of Tokyo
Research activities of CCSR relating to the global change
POST 723, 2:00-3:00 p.m.
(Joint IPRC-Meteorology Seminar)

 

Michael A. Spall, Department of Physical Oceanography,Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Influences of the Leeuwin Current on the baroclinic structure
of the Indonesian Throughflow
POST 723, 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Tuesday, February 13, 2001

Richard D. Rosen, Vice President and Chief Scientist, Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc., and President-elect of the American Meteorological Society
Angular Momentum of the 20th and 21st Centuries
POST 723, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.

Friday, February 9, 2001

Peter Niiler, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California
Wind driven ocean circulation: How observed currents and winds are used to calculate the Pacific Ocean absolute sea level topography
MSB 100, 1:30 - 2:30 p.m.

Friday February 9, 2001

George N. Kiladis, Aeronomy Laboratory, NOAA/ERL, Boulder, Colorado
Ocean-atmosphere interaction associated with atmospheric Kelvin waves
MSB 100, 2:30 - 3:30 p.m.

Friday, February 2, 2001

William Kessler, NOAA-Pacific Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.
Mean three-dimensional circulation in the northeastern tropical Pacific
MSB 100, 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Tuesday, January 23, 2001

Kelvin J. Richards, School of Ocean and Earth Science Southampton Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
How well do tracers constrain ocean models?
MSB 100, 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Wednesday, January 17, 2001

Brian Mapes, NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center, Boulder, Colorado
Nested-grid modeling of the daily weather of Pacific Colombia
MSB100, 2:00-3:00 p.m.

Thursday, January 4, 2001

Friedrich Schott, Institut fuer Meereskunde an der Universitaet Kiel, Kiel, Germany
The three-dimensional circulation of the Indian Ocean
POST 723, 2:00-3:00 p.m.